The Valis Revival Project is a sham. And that's okay. - UHVGN

[@Roebloz]

When the world needed him the most, he came back. I'm glad to see you back.

[@gianyrivera1082]

Man literally so angry about the mistreatment of Valis, he comes out of retirement to rant about it, and plans to make his own Valis game just to spite them That's powerful

[@slopesgameroom]

Great to see you back buddy :D

[@Mr.madmight266]

Oh hey slopes. I hope you're not using footage of my videos without my permission again, just saying.

[@damntakes525]

$40 for the game? Uh, maybe. $80 for a mug or t-shirt? That's really high. $120 for an illustration booklet? Heck no. $1,000 for your name in the credits? What 1K? Did I hear that right? $2,000 for a voice actress signature? YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! GET THE HELL OUGHTTA HERE!! Missed you dude. Wish you'd keep uploading more.

[@murabitojames]

Rant or no, it's so good to see you again. Always feel free to post whenever.

[@GJDZ02]

Earlier this week I was just remembering the time when I discovered your channel and binged like 90% of your videos... I'm happy to see you making a video once again, even if it's a topic you didn't want to do a video about. Glad to see you're sticking to game making as well! Hope everything goes well, looking forward to see whatever you do next.

[@Ecl1p5e-MM8BDM]

100 Likes and 0 Dislikes. The world is healing.

[@2lobo777]

Welcome back, I missed you. Dont go away ever again....

[@TheT3rr0rMask]

Wanted Valis to come back so bad, checked the revival site every now an then. Heard of the Switch ports, was happy the series'd get some exposure, but a new game just seems impossible in the near future. Inti worked with Sunsoft to make Blaster Master Zero, wish Sunsoft still had the rights cus if Inti picked Valis up next they're the only dev I'd trust with the series tbh

[@HaydenTheHistorian]

I MISSED YOU SO MUCH

[@NightpireVideos]

The moment you said mobile game company, I knew this was gonna turn bad real quick. So, I suppose we can't expect any overpriced mugs or shirts for your changed project? Glad to see an update from you.

[@absolutelypitiful3837]

I love you man, I missed you. Make a small video to tell us your thoughts once in a while. This way it requires very little time and effort and we can keep contact with you, and you never risk burning out again. No need for videos that require hours and hours of editing.

[@bjornh1527]

The most soft spoken rant I’ve seen on KZbin! Making your game a homage is the only reasonable thing to do. Good luck on future development!

[@artsydoodler29]

The REAL question is: Game Urara revival when? That is a magazine I'd buy.

[@flobeamer1922]

Welcome back! It's great to see you again!

[@Seafoamgaming]

Definitely understand the way you feel about the Valis crowdfunding. As a huge valis fan that got into the IP due to videos like yours + the PS3 ports of I/II, (which, along with the EGG music collection and the EGG Computer ports of Valis, were all Sunsoft did with that since Vic Ireland basically forced them to buy the IP, probably because he assumed they'd make sequels like they did with BM Overdrive & he openly wanted to port CF2 to Wii, but then that game bombed so sunsoft had a paperweight of IPs to do little with) I was longing for a type of compilation or some sort of new game for a while now: so I was baffled that when City Connection, the company doing a lot of great compilations like the Zombie Nation one, just didnt do anything with the Telenet IPs either, I was pretty much losing hope at Telenet stuff ever showing up again. To be honest, when Edia was announced as the new IP holder for Telenet I had equally bad hopes and was terrified they'd basically turn Valis into a gatcha hell or creepy waifu game, rather than bringing it back proper to finally show the IP's full potential if someone like Inti or Wayforward made a sequel to the series, but I'll be blunt, they've done more with licensing Telenet IPs already here in the west than anyone has since Renovation. A bunch of Genesis Telenet games got licensed to Antstream Arcade, marking the first EVER reissues of a bunch of that catalog in the west, then Super Valis IV/Psycho Dream/other Telenet games came to NSO, which made me literally scream in shock upon seeing the Valis IV box in the update video since I've longed to play that one, and then we have this crowdfunding... Which is unfortunately their biggest mistake, for most of the reasons you noted. Seriously, when it was announced as a compilation, I was a bit miffed: No X68K Valis II? No Valis IV PCE (even though the SNES port is honestly better)? Not even letting G-MODE get that amazing Valis I Mobile Phone remake on their archive service for preservation? Just... the two games I bought on PS3/PSP, again, but with the first EVER reissue of PCE III on a console. It felt weird, but I definitely wanted a switch copy so I had interest in backing a good amount... Until the region locking. And the crazy tiers. And the lackluster stretch goals. I literally begged them on twitter to lemme donate even without a reward as I wanted the IP to come back SO MUCH but they pretty much said they only considered the crowdfunding with Japan in mind and legitimately seemed surprised that western fans even liked the series?!? Which, I kinda can't blame them for, but at the same time, this is a perfect chance to expand (they could even throw in the funny dub versions of II/III!), so it felt so tone-deaf. Yet thankfully, it at least succeeded, with full english text and physical versions confirmed... but then backers wouldn't get a physical which made me honestly glad I didn't back it with a fake address or using a Japanese friend's PO box. I think in all honesty, what Edia thought is that these IPs are pretty fun games with value worth putting out again, but doing little else with, but they saw Valis as the most appealing due to the fact they could probably appeal Yuko's design to the modern eye-candy focused audience of flashy anime and mobile gaming, like how Langrisser made a similar comeback. (that worked well, since we got good remakes of I/II) Notice how not a single peep has been made about Exile, despite that series having some cameos of Valis in it and doing decently well, and even was put on Antstream. I truly believe they crowdfunded as they thought it would be a very very niche product and they figured they'd only get a little bit of money to create a rapid compilation and call it a day. Hopefully with the overseas reaction + Japanese success, they'll actually consider doing more with Telenet's stuff than just eyecandy. On a final promising note, they DID note when buying the IPs that they were buying them solely to license out to people interested in them... Which led to an awesome looking Renovation Collection from Evercade coming out next year, which will honestly likely have more love put into it than this due to it confirmed to have a full-color manual and also a bunch of non-valis/exile genesis games too, like Sol-Deace! Super hyped for that. But that means that in theory, you may be able to snag that Valis license from them after all, or at least someone like Wayforward/Inti... Speaking of which now that I hear it's a valis-inspired game, If you can pull off the godly music quality, I'll definitely keep tabs on your upcoming project! So yeah, TLDR: i feel Edia saw Valis as anime eyecandy girl the game and didn't think much of it, hence why they crowdfunded, not expecting much or even it to succeed, but it doing well + recent international interest from licensors like Evercade and Antstream may hopefully give them the push out of bed they need. ...I definitely would have pledged $250 on this if it was a US kickstarter with tons of more reasonable rewards though. I literally just spent $260 on a Solatorobo cart due to the allure of Opera Kranz, I'd spend $250 on a Valis compilation and a bunch of merch like OSTs and shirts in a heartbeat, but definitely not 2K!

[@etenby699]

Me, who got Solatorobo CIB at launch for 40$: "250$ ON WHAT!?" This game needs a rerelease holy shit.

[@SECONDQUEST]

I'm well, glad you are well. Sad news about Valis, happy your game is still coming

[@duckhive]

The legend! Great to see you again, Ultra

[@danmakuman]

Glad to see you again bro. A shame this is happening to Valis. I always wished some fans could get the IP licence to make a new game fixing all the problems with the gameplay but keeping the charm and style of the series. Maybe I can help with something artwork related to your game, I made some Valis fan art, dunno what are you looking for, but at least I love the games :P. Anyway, hope to see you around again even if are only rants lol

[@DelRio1991]

Holy shit he's back with the double dragon poster and everything. Pretty much had a goddamn funeral service for this channel.

[@PointZoneTelephone]

Silent Dragon, way deeper cut

[@MrDmoney156]

You been gone for a minute my dude, glad to see you back again!

[@AegisAmaranth]

It's good to see you again, Ultra Healthy. Ouchy news. But I am glad you got to turn your project around in another direction. Last thing one'd want, is having any relations to a company like that.

[@Supercatandrewman]

Hey Ultra Healthy, I haven't seen you in forever, hope you're doing well!

[@rohry4905]

Man that was crazy ambitious of you to make a game to try to revitalize a favorite series of yours Seriously I hope you're able to make your game everything you want it to be!

[@Mr.madmight266]

Haha i guess i wasn't the only one who had that one idea of making a Valis 5. I still even have a text document file were i wrote one of the ideas i had,and it says "a Valis 5 game with a godly version of Yuuko" When i looked at that compilation for the switch i was like "Why not remake the games instead?" Cause if i wanna play a Valis compilation then i'll just play the Valis Complete compilation. I also didn't like how they're seemingly not going to include the PC versions of the games,like the PC-88 Valis 1,The X68000 Valis 2 and so on.

[@ArGame.]

City Connection is probably the modern form of JALECO, because they remade & rereleased Game Tengoku on modern platforms, and even added new DLC for JALECO games...! (Also props to city connection for existing and introducing me to my new favorite top down shooter)

[@REblll]

Yay a new ultra healthy! Made a vid about valis x around a year ago and I was hopeful about the "reboot".

[@mkge7206]

So glad to see you're back, even if for some time. I'm not surprised by the news of the video, even though I expected at least something of the news. Too bad SEGA wasn't the buyer of the Valis brand. This crowdfunding stuff is absolutely ridiculous. But the worst is that it's both insulting to the work and abusive to the customers. The prices do not stack up to the rewards, it's a literal sacrifice in the name of love for a franchise which is mystified through its age by the IP holders to generate some kind of devotion with nothing in return. It's a cultist, emotionally abusive tactic and this is absolutely absurd and disgusting. And why does that always happen with video games? If someone told us they bought a 1000 dollars special edition book of the Lord of the Rings trilogy with your name put in the editor postface and a signature by Christopher Tolkien, would he be seen as anything but a sucker? People like to pretend video games are art, but they disregard the work and flock to the brands. To hell with the brand. A sequel or sister work is a work that evokes the same feelings, which uses the same artistic components as its predecessor. And especially with the case of Valis, it's not because some product has the brand slapped on its face that it's part of the family. lol

[@hackerp49]

Let's play (read) Valis X instead.

[@artboy598]

Long time no see. I hope you’re well :)

[@Lain_Unkown]

You finally back the tomb!!

[@user-dd6on5cr3u]

Glad to see a new upload! I still want to hear his take on Balan Wonderland someday

[@marcomaureira]

Welcome back !

[@jymfiskburk2256]

Miss you dude, glad you are ok

[@Kusanagix]

Nice to see you again! When I heard it was a mobile game company, I was expecting some kind of scammy gacha game, but what you said is even worse. Those prices are outrageous...

[@Nitroxity]

If something like this ever happens to Vic Tokai's catalog I'm going to doubt there's any love of old game culture left in the world.

[@CodaBroda]

Legend is back! Always great to hear from ya Glad the crowdfunding scene is mostly starting to die away in the gaming space because of junk like this. Hate to hear it

[@joeedwards8863]

HOLY SHIT IT'S ULTRA HEALTHY!!!!! It's too bad about Valis... That really sucks... But its is good to see the old "Ultra Healthy" back in action!!!

[@electrosphere5581]

Happy to see you back, wishing the best for your game project!

[@Pichuscute]

Yeah, I was looking forward to this collection on Switch until I realized how insanely priced it was. Wild to hear that the crowdfunding was even worse. I'd pay for 3-4 Valis games digitally on Switch happily for around $15-20, but $50 is just crazy for how little content that is.

[@MaximilienNoal]

Glad to see you back ! You look way better ! I look forward to playing your game. :)

[@leogg1402]

Great to see you again ultra healthy, thanks for the update and your thoughts on the revival campaign

[@LordZero666]

YOU CAME BACK !! Man, i love you. :3

[@KaiMangaKnight]

At this point, I think I'm already so damn happy with owning a physical copy of Super Valis for the Super Famicom. I'm just afraid that "digital" would mean they'll alter the game in some ways. Just take a look at what happened to the title screen for Shadow Dancer. They removed the WTC... And good to see you back. Things have been so sad lately. Lockdown and curfew means staying home and game.

[@UltraHealthyVideoGameNerd]

Don't worry, I'm becoming more and more confident that my game will fill the Valis void

[@dylan.t180]

Good to see you back on the platform

[@carlcouture1023]

Just happy to see another video from you.

[@mahiru20ten]

You're back! What a lovely day!

[@neptronix]

I'm so happy to see you back.

[@ImperatorGrausam]

;_; OH MY GOD I'M SO HAPPY

[@jackgattullo]

UHVGN is back!

[@Acidonia150reborn]

Edia sounds like they got the idea of these thanks to the way over priced switch ones Taito made on the Darius and Space Invaders series. So just charging silly money for a few 8 and 16 bit games then making special limited edtions that cost more with a few extra games added or putting the extra games as extra not free DLC which is what Toaplan are doing with their switch games.

[@linuxluke86]

Good to see you back, even though it's because of such bad news for Valis fans.

[@DrKriegsgrave]

omg you are back!

[@tornekotaloon9732]

A lot of game crowdfunding campaigns will put you in the credits for $100 and up, a lot of the time even less. $1000 for your name in the credits is ridiculous.

[@BX56_YT]

Guess who's back? Back again?

[@reagandow850]

Holy crap!! Hey man.....so great to see you again.

[@hopezaraki7497]

Yeah! Glad to see you're back!

[@FrankyAkamtsu]

what the ... welcome back my dude. even if this a one shot

[@therosesword007]

always good to see you again

[@st1ka]

So 250 for a digital copy, t-shirt, cup and an art book? Are people even willing to spend that amount of money for so little? o.O edit: $1000 for your name on the credits? hahaha wow

[@mkge7206]

Time for a new Paprium-like binge on Valis, my sunny friend :D

[@st1ka]

@@mkge7206 well so far there's not enough to go off of I think haha

[@ayahuascamaharaja]

I know you'd be back. Remember; you're here forever.

[@StarSuneiko]

Glad you're back!

[@carllthebigboy]

HE BACK

[@BorislavVeselinov]

Rather wait for a physical version and to buy the mug from a scalper on a japanese auction site. Or ebay.

[@swirlingabyss]

If you feel like making a video about something, please do it. Have fun with it. Don't worry about an upload schedule or some stupid algorithm. Don't try to make it a business. Don't worry about production values. Just share stuff. That's what made youtube so awesome in the early days.

[@hicknopunk]

Hope you are doing well Nerd! 😀

[@alteredpenguin2073]

Aw man missed ya. Made my day

[@borninpennsylvania3908]

i love your channel glad youre back

[@andersnrsteb6302]

Good to see you, dude! :-D

[@deengew]

seriously missed ya man

[@zorochii]

I mean, it's some you feel passionate about, so yeah the time has come for the momentary return. Anyway, having to sell your IPs must suck. You know that whoever gets them is not gonna care, unless it prints money for them with no effort, which of course the people actually doing the hard work behind (the actual development team) will have to supply all the passion. But at least (?) this is a gaming company and not some asshat hoarding IPs to sue people, like the guy that owns Karnov. Or in a much smaller nich space, the guy that owns Horace.

[@一本のうんち]

Whaa. What's the drama with Karnov? I'd like to learn more... :D I've made a fan "sequel" before...

[@zorochii]

@@一本のうんち at least for now there's no drama, but someone owns all of Data East IPs, and of course they're just sitting over Karnov. So if someone was interested in making something with the character, they're gonna have to pay. Kudos to you for the fan game tho. Happy to see love for Karnov :D!

[@gamermasta525]

Interesting video he brings up some good points is it strange that that only reason I like valis is for the music?

[@jreschke5]

Where has this guy been

[@jreschke5]

Also yikes after watching the video

[@chimp9465]

hell ya he back

[@賈斯汀霍利迪]

Tha e math d ’fhaicinn a-rithist UHVGN. Bha mi an dòchas gun dèanadh tu bhidio eile mar seo a-rithist uaireigin.

[@PiroKUSS]

Why did you write this in Gaelic lol

[@BalsticMaker12]

Mother of M2, not even City Connection is this awful! Speaking of Edia, Edia's main source of income is probably its pr0n idol gacha game... Perhaps that is saying something in regards of their business decisions. The Japanese pr0n games market is pretty hardcore with its merchandise.

[@Samulisami]

So good to see your face

[@robjackson4050]

i hadn't heard of this before this video and i all i can find is a article saying it was announced so did it ever really even exist or was it vaporware? and if i'm paying 40 bucks for a port of a 20 year old game i want a physical copy not a digital download do they even offer one? and actually valis x is actually the last one granted it never left japan and had adult content but it was the last valis game

[@ViniZiello]

Heeey man. Nice to see you

[@Chris-Courage]

Dam! $80 for a mug+t-shirt? And here I thought it was already a waste to get these games on a switch when one can jusy play the turbo/pc engine ones instead. If they were releasing new games based on the Valis series then that would be a different story. Maybe a side story spinoff game about the sword of Lasis that thety talk about in Valis 3?

[@reagandow850]

Let me guess....said crowd funding project has very few takers? Btw...I guess $50 each for the T-shirt and mug. DAMN! These guys got ahold of some great drugs huh? Edit: THIS WENT TO A STRETCH GOAL??? WTF is wrong with Japanese gamers? My God!!

[@mr.vidjagamez9896]

1000$ for your name in the credits when the vast majority of Kickstarters will put your name in even if you back a dollar. Also how would credits for a compilation of games even work? Im assuming it would be one of those things on the title screen or options menu someone would have to select to show who backed it. Honestly, you probably have a better chance now of trying to convince the rights holders to make your project Valis 5 if they just want some quick thing to slap the title on and sell, especially if you can get on board some great artists and musicians for the final project to show off to them. Valis X was a thing after all and that used the official branding.

[@TheYo1289]

Did your boyfriend leave you? You seem so sad:(

[@Josh-2k68]

He should obviously sue his (ex)boyfriend for violent abuse

[@PinguinkindX]

You shouldn’t forgive your ex for what he did to your nose

[@TheYo1289]

@@Josh-2k68 Oh no...I heard rumors that he is a victim of domestic violence...He clearly deserves better!

[@ColdShadow7]

You don't see very healthy, let alone ultra healthy.